Best ever irish goal

[Adrianovic]

on a side note, the best footage ever is the slow motion reaction of Mick Mc a Robbie goes through on goal and McCarthy realises he's equalised, absolutely brilliant I think it was probably the way we all were as we watched it.....

Yeah that was classic stuff, I don't remember seeing the goal when it went in, so I might have been looking away, but the pub went absolutely barmy. People were jumping around spilling beer everywhere, arms around each other and screaming their heads off.

Then we all remembered our decorum and discussed the finer points of the goal.

Ade

[pineapple stu]

on a side note, the best footage ever is the slow motion reaction of Mick Mc a Robbie goes through on goal and McCarthy realises he's equalised, absolutely brilliant I think it was probably the way we all were as we watched it.....

[tarzan_bray]

I was behind the goal in Ibaraki when Robbie scored, all I remember is getting caught up in a sea of other fans and ending up about 5 rows from my seat, it was absolutely bananas and we stayed for half an hour after singing and then onto Roppongi in Tokyo which is like Temple Bar and sang outside Foley's till 5 in the morning when the metro re-opened, I was so ******ed the next day, slept on a park bench for a few hours as the accomodation we had threw us out at 10 each day, the things you do for cheap accomodation

[Junior]

I was behind the goal in Ibaraki when Robbie scored, all I remember is getting caught up in a sea of other fans and ending up about 5 rows from my seat, it was absolutely bananas and we stayed for half an hour after singing and then onto Roppongi in Tokyo which is like Temple Bar and sang outside Foley's till 5 in the morning when the metro re-opened, I was so ******ed the next day, slept on a park bench for a few hours as the accomodation we had threw us out at 10 each day, the things you do for cheap accomodation

Headed to Roppongi that night as well, it was about 3am by the time we got our first beer after the game (****ign about with trains and that), come 7am though we were all scuttered!!! great memories..............

[1MickCollins]

I'm glad somebody else remebers Brady's goal, Robbie Keane is the only other Irish player that I could imagine scoring that goal in that way.

[tricky_colour]

for sheer holy-Jesus-did-you-see-that? value it has to be Ronnie Whelan against the USSR at Euro 88.
Liam Brady's goal against Brazil in 1987 at Lansdowne Rd was my first ever soccer match anywhere, I was 11 yrs old and it made my year.

Anyone have video of either goal, I found a link for Whelans goal
video on google
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache...uro+88.+&hl=en

(cached) but it does not work now

[tricky_colour]

Anyone have video of either goal, I found a link for Whelans goal
video on google
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache...uro+88.+&hl=en

(cached) but it does not work now

Actually I have found it! (From an earlier thread on this site).
My thanks to Eirebhoy!!
http://homepage.eircom.net/~gearoidw01/WhelanGoal.rm

Its a bit hard to see what happens though, blink and you have
missed it, looks a bit like an overhead kick/volley.
Difficult to see the ball, and it seems to be only a few frames
of what happens, maybe my computer is to slow for it!!

[1MickCollins]

http://homepage.eircom.net/~gearoidw01/WhelanGoal.rm

Feels like yesterday...

[1MickCollins]

Tricky - after playing the file from this link go into your 'Temporary Internet Files' folder and you will find a WhelanGoal[1].ram file. Copy that to a safe location.

[Bowsy]

Shin, foot, whatever that flew in off i could watch it all day. Fantastic.

[tricky_colour]

Tricky - after playing the file from this link go into your 'Temporary Internet Files' folder and you will find a WhelanGoal[1].ram file. Copy that to a safe location.

Thanks for that tip Mick, I was wondering where it was stored as it is
not 'streaming'. It thought it would store it in a more obscure place or
only hold it in memory (that .ram name was a red herring).

[macdermesser]

thanks for the link too..
would anyone have houghtons v England goal? Or Gabriel Egans commentary of that goal (class!) .. would be amazing to stick the two together .. using windows movie maker or some program like that ..

[tiktok]

just on that subject.

RTE are currently re-running the excellent 'reeling in the years' and are just at the end of the eighties, so tonight's show at 6.30 on RTE 1 should allow us to relive Italia '90.

as for the topic here, my top three would be

1. Houghton -v- Northern Ireland at Landsdowne in '89
2. Brady's against Brazil
3. Whelan's against Russia

[pineapple stu]

What's an RM file when it's at home? What programme do you have to open it with? Downloaded okay, but coming up with the Windows icon beside it and asks me how I want to open it...

[Jon'o]

What's an RM file when it's at home? What programme do you have to open it with? Downloaded okay, but coming up with the Windows icon beside it and asks me how I want to open it...

think its a real media file - would need to down load the player, but should be able to play it through windows media player i think?

[tricky_colour]

thanks for the link too..
would anyone have houghtons v England goal? Or Gabriel Egans commentary of that goal (class!) .. would be amazing to stick the two together .. using windows movie maker or some program like that ..

Hmm.. does WMM create .wmv files?

I find my computer is not really quick enough to play them.

I cant see what was wrong with the older formats myself.

Just a ploy to force people to buy new computers in my opinion.

If you do do it, create a good old mpeg!!!

Apart from anything else they are much easier to work with.

[tricky_colour]

think its a real media file - would need to down load the player, but should be able to play it through windows media player i think?

Yes it is a real media file but no I don't think you can play it through
WMP, I couldn't anyway.

I believe real media stuff is designed to be imcompatible 'for marketing'
reasons, thus forcing you to use their player. I could be wrong though
and you may be able to get other players to play it.

I mean otherwise why didn't they just make the file a bog standard mpeg?

I dont like the real media stuuf cos of the time it installed itself all
over my computer, taking over it.
It took me ages to get rid of it.
It does seemed to have stopped trying to hijack my computer
now though. Being an unwanted guest is not a very good form
or marketing.

[Harry Tipper]

I was talking to a lad here the other day about the riot in Landsdowne Road in 1995. We were leading 1-0 before the match was abandoned and it struck me that I can't remember anything about the goal. I wonder if it was Alan Kelly who scored? Anything to jog the memory??

[tricky_colour]

What's an RM file when it's at home? What programme do you have to open it with? Downloaded okay, but coming up with the Windows icon beside it and asks me how I want to open it...

You need to have the real media player, if you have not got it
you must downoad if from here
http://uk.real.com/player/?&src=ZG.u...k.rp.rp.hd.def

I remember it took me ages to downkoad it, AND that was just
to download a program to do the download, the real download
took much longer, hence I do not like it at all.

I also find the player is very slow to load when you use it..

Apart from that its shyte it says I am not connected to the
internet when I check for updates and it seems to have
screwed up my computer so I cant do smilies

Seems to be fixed now

[Harry Tipper]

http://homepage.eircom.net/~gearoidw01/WhelanGoal.rm

Fantastic!! Thanks for the tip. Can ye hear the backing-singers shouting JACK! ....JACK!.....JACK! in the background?